42 Royal Society Fellows Sign Letter Urging AI Extinction Risk Be Treated as an Emergency
birchlse · x · 2026-09-17
Luke Muehlhauser highlights that some of the world's most accomplished mathematicians, including several Fields medalists, say the widely quoted ≥10% chance of human extinction from AI within a decade is not hype.
- Fields medalist Timothy Gowers signed and publicized a letter from 42 fellows and foreign members of the Royal Society to president Paul Nurse.
- The letter urges the society to treat the serious risks of AI as an emergency — a rare collective stance from top mainstream scientists on extinction risk.
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